Thursday, February 19, 2004

I am not only talking about the spoken word, its tone imprinted by the vowel; the form, virtue, impetus, allure, energy, the particular action conferred upon it by the consonant. But the written word itself. I find in that something other than a sort of conventional algebra. Between the graphic sign and the signified thing, there is a relationship. One can deny me based on their misconceptions, but I assert that the written word has a soul, a certain implied dynamism that translates itself from under our pen into a figure, a certain expressive tracing.